PaaS for Rapid Development

Puja PramudyaCTO of Taptopick

• August 2015 : Ideation

• September 2015 : Design

• Mid-October 2015 : Coding,coding,coding !

• Early January 2016 : Testing Phase

• 29 January 2016 : Launch

From Idea to v 1.0

• Customer App

– iOS App

– Android App

• Agent App

– Android App

• Web App

What do we build ?

• Limited SDM : 3 person

• Limited Time : 3 months

• Limited Knowledge : Build large scale system

Our Concern

• Allocate wisely

• Cut features : MVP

• Build with what we know + Adopt cloud

Solution

• Delay Android customer version

• Add +1 web dev

Allocate wisely

• No premium features

• No schedule

• No express features

Cut feature : MVP

• Web : Microsoft stack

• Android : Java

• iOS : Obj-C

• PaaS : Platform-as-a-Service instead of IaaS

What we know+Adopt cloud

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Platform as a Service

PaaS Provider

Production

Web Server

Database

Storage

Customer

App

SMS

Service

Payment

Service

Push

Notification

Server

Pickr App

Map Service

• Backend : CMS + API

• ASP.NET MVC

• Using Azure App Service+ App Insight

– Prepare to scale + built-in load balancer

– Application slot

– HTTP(S)

Hosting

• Azure SQL

– Familiar

– Built-in geo-

redundant

Database

• Azure Blob

– Cheap

– 3x replication in

data center

Blob

• Parse

– Simple integration

– Large support

– Dev/Prod certification

Push

• SMS Service : Twilio

• Mapping Service : Google Maps

• Payment Gateway : Veritrans

3rd Party

Microsoft Azure

Azure App Service

Azure SQL

Azure Storage

Android

iOS

Twilio

Veritrans

Parse

Android

Google Maps

• PaaS offers speed

• Auto-Scale is very handy

Summary

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We use Bizspark

PaaS for Rapid Development

Puja PramudyaCTO of Taptopick